Although the Beast—who looks a bit like Bigfoot—enjoys gardening, reading, and baking, such Beasts are rare creatures, and he begins to feel lonely. In his search for kinship, the Beast travels great distances and braves many dangers, until he finally arrives at a city. There he finds friendship and even celebrity status, but still the Beast is unfulfilled; only when he returns to his own forest will he find the community he has been seeking. Chris Judge's brightly colored pen and paint images manage to evoke a few monster movies of years past, but readers 4 to 8 will be amused rather than frightened by this highly motivated monster.